He wants, desperately, to be an Asian woman himself, and to be penetrated by a white man who looks like, well, Sam Rockwell. A season that has generally played it studiously safe around issues of race — one in which the hotel’s Thai employees are carefully portrayed as so virtuous as to be,

Sam Rockwell, an actor and the partner of White Lotus star Leslie Bibb, made a cameo in Sunday's episode. The anthology drama series follows dark circumstances surrounding characters who stay at the fictional White Lotus resort,

The show-stopping guest appearance sets the tone for a wild episode that journeys into the dark heart of desire